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THE NEW NATIONAL EKA,
JRSDAY MORNING
COMMUNIOA TIONS.
Letter from Vermont.
Watbrbb-bt] Vt., July 15, 1870.
To the Editor of ihe New National Era :
"Washington, the place of boiling sun, burn
ing blasts, mad dogs, and madder people sonic
times, possesses little to attract just now
Everybody that can are leaving—some by wa
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad ; some b;
the Potomac ; and, alas 1 how many by way c
To c
i by -
latter route, we chose that greatest of all mo-
of $7.50, landed as in modern Gotham on the
tempted i
All we wanted
breath i
,vr»..-w
" Breakfast on board <
utrengtl. si
iplc,
vi,:. u
It hole under the cabin smalt of toffee
and onions ; we entered. A few cat-holes
near the ceiling gave ventilation from under
the wharf. Our waiter took orders and left.
Our appetites left without orders. The former
finally retired, the latter joined us hours after
somewhere between New York and Albany.
Long we waited, gasping fur breath, in a reeking perspiration ; but then we were " making
it what we pleased," Ac; we imitated dob
with all our might, aud soon as possible struck
for daylight and the fresh air of New York
city on dock. Bat such retrenchments !
For economy, give us an uptown hotel, where
prices and temporal punishment are materially
less. This will he our choice the next time
kindly allowed to "make it what we
pKsi
ie Hudson! Would you like
it? Well, like the old lady'
du. Have not Bayard Taylot
rving, Beeoher, and hundreds of
ged writers vainly attempted to
this unique workmanship of the
1 "Shall fools rush on whore
will do, and the mind is v<
The quiet, clean, cool stvci
present such a contrast to 0
ington at this season. Thi
"hot." We laughed at the
r beloved Wash-
people called it
:, and told them
*( The Smtih
In the month of February, after a full and
free conference of the leading colored citizens
of Richmond with the colored members of the
Legislature, seeking the most speedy and effec-
y ofo
.-■it ,ri
public opinion, it was decided to call a conven
tion of tho colored people of the State, to b
held in Richmond, Virginia, on or about Apri
12, in order that they might take into conside
ration the removal of certain binderances lo th
success of Republican principles in that State
But for some unexplained reason the member
of the Legislature thought better (>
and 1
Barely
,;.,-, if,,
four months have elapsoc
dition of affairs urge the n
tion of the colored people of the slave-holdir
States. A call has been issued and signed 1
representative men from all sections of tl
e Virginia
No i,
1 I.,,-,:
Virginia, with her hundred thorn;
places her colored citizens in an attitude ei
of indifference or opposition. Have the wr
ling feuds and blunders of the past so dem
ized the manses, and the truckling, blind at
of some of their leaders left none whose m
would have been a tower of strength?
the past indifference of Virginians in the
liocal gatherings shown a disheartening
of appreciation? Was it fc,
Cms
re- lei
e popular will ?
Men of Virginia, you owa
that your representatives shot
against this important mo>
members of the Legislature
now? Under which king, B
Colored
A correspondent of the New V,,l. 7V,i
writing from Pensaeola, Phi., says :
The New York Observer
NEW NATIONAL ERA.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
TfiAHBIEKT AD?BRTISIHG BATES
VOL. II.—NO.
WASHINGTON", D. 0., THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1871.
vardico of Tammany aud the hesita-
incompetency of the officials with
ifflicts us, has brought terrible bu(
nits of shame and sorrow to the city.
: than weak, the pusillanimous sur-
demand of outraged public
niul though not so morn
Cietieil by lili
cakncisi and I ■
ng demonstrate
■aecii cry ...if Hi-.-
i the indignant
irly ye;:!,
,ii.ei-edoi
reside in greatest
''"^vi'th'whi
i the localities where
■pemtc resolution of those about them. The
enerally were gruff and silent:, evidently
,■!■:,.. .S! ■ :„:i ; ■•: C.iil
of the men whi
Governor. Sep.
ei^M in number
i they had made Mayor ami
,-siiiliiiiini:
Miahaetir,
t fire to her
ity scholars and drovo her'
tiie piste.:. Mis heart never quailed Iii
instant, it is memorable, as an evidem
tho influence which a good man may have
■ immunity, that, thirty years afterward, fl
am county voted by a targe m
f negro suffrage, and stood for
■ ■■ .
In 1 b3."i, the year when the raob spirit against
if the slave led him to relinquish liis
home and the service nf c
..o take upon himself tho laborious and
and nelf-denying labors of a traveling lecturer
that and the foil
:i:l], ■]■ pill
ivorLiuen ml thi
them. In one
gainst (he houses of
!;t:::: vein
tented the Ora
ip, they gradually diaper
■ by t
hud boasted, Still
threatening bef,
lompelled
few determined policen
ry purpose, but it was pi
[Tout the organization tl
before 10 o'clock 1
a HaH,0and
. ■.':.,;
had been comparatively qui
holly destroyed the
' police. There
perfect console ol action !sctv,-ecn tins riiiperiiitendi-nt of
:
us-, fact- will eventually be traced many of
blunders which have aided to make the
)e aud troops were eager to do their full
• ; there was no sympathy in the ranks
■
expect
y handled
hsive-l fith such (firing Knt, i
; blunder*,
■ - «s."e spirit whit
from their lodge in Eighth avenue an
points of the city began to concentra
marched in large bodies through the
streets, undispersod. A large polios
previously been sent there, und thesi
rioters at a distance. Later ic tht
regiments of troops marched to the si
and by two o'clock tbe entire brig-i
large body of police had formed i
avenue, hemmed in at all the cross :
an angry mob.
Soon after the Orangem
■ ■ : ■
, preparatory t
ce put them to flight. Subsequently
way, the police acting with great spirits. Tint
which they hud been driven, and prepared to
renew their hooting, or to indulge in more
violent demonstrations. A few shots were fired
from houses in the avenue, before the proces-
iog the fire by a single shot, but nothing really
serious occurred until the bead of the line hud
reached Twenty-third street, and the Orange-
previously loaded v
the effect of their fi
same time the9thar
of the Orangemen a
nately, sweeping I
none of them apparently took effect
sniueilintely und escilcily discha
at. They
■ii-bih s
,i '.oh ii
eclilii:.
, llie pliltut
"'"!■,
siliit;; up
stationed at Twenty-ninth sti
*" 9th, and 84th regim
pletely demoralized
holly without order. 'I
"Mrs. Ileiii; !--,
louthern people : 'Idecla
the follow
has been pusstnj
ing and hearing
before God, 1
sending politicians down he
a Ku-Klux,
■i,,.---
I . .
i yesterday.
is simply a
tmgh he may have
justly maligned thai
They found black ci
road, stopping
tenerally
ren.or their eick.
■u broke up prcttj
freedinen theii
many try to make out. And by so represt
■
and 22 year* of that time in Florida; h
never held office, and seldom voted at
election. - -
from thei
however, und reforming
leaving a hundred or mo
side streets from Twenty
idoned also the ecu
and thei:
icdy to apply, forte
called wholly guitleis) s-uffered
dead and wounded
behind them. The
inty-eigbth
their (ri:
id of all but those
in pane th
obstruct the march
ppressed by this single volley, and
Samuel J. Way, Deceased
extended rjot
- ■■'■■■:
iderneas
dand by what is right. Born'in
181-7, he was
te. Ami'd all
i improve the condition of society ai
" in, and by his modest, c;
n the subject of slavery it
en in 1833 the i
is Crandall and .
[ school, :
, hi* Villi'
eofh:
.
■
i'for 1,
.re,|UCL,tofltoi;i
if the first Norre
Kington, afterwa
was afterward settled
guve up this parish, attl
nn, i.o isike hi, the charge of the Si
no] established tit I.ex ing tun,
lovedto Frnminghara. Whileintbe .
uee.upu.iiey ofthepiiliiitiit Lexington, he labored
showed the breadth of bis charity and the
fearlessness of his advocacy of the rights of
freedom in opinion and in speech by a voluntary
exchange of pulpits with Theodore Parker, then
so obnoxious among the Unitarians that only
Hi him.
In ;S-l:i Mr. May accepted a call to Syracuse,
let-c for nbnv
■ffiee of a Chri
:, and such singlem
iticli e
and consistency of life as to win the respect of
they might differ from him theologically. W hile
laboring diligently to build up his own people,
in peace, order, and piety, be was a ready aod
place—of edocatiou, temperance, and publt
,i.it-:.i ;
specially against ibe c. -* ;'ir;t of caste
availing
'. from Georgia.
appear and testify B
to tbeeomi:!
etisuy silied I.,,dure the i
ot ooimluded00" "1J
" :.i :
nrii i.vii ui the Ku-Klux ori
aation of the Ku-Klux,
composed entirely of I
tims of their outrages
Republicans. There is
nid, Ku-KJte in nearly
iinii l
"pP'ss-il.
"ll'islit
negroes and *dis-
■: elcti.-giu nr.s in
■■iius', but would
te suffrage.
sat in Geor-
o granted univer-
iere is no hope of good
I suffrage. The white peoph
• i.'en.
■ Un
do this by tlic aid of Nnrthci
y foreign countr, he thinks tl
arted with a-view
si.iy that in.-!
join greatly ■>. j
e is among the leadiuj:
th little loyalty or.h
t of Southern whites i
The Ku-Kltix Kin
■ .
ranting gener
xhibit a. kind
Witness m
eKu-hiiixK
keep tho n
■i,.nn
men thought there
the purposes of t
of the best, mos:
men in Georgia, and exists in almost evei
State lie thought it bent t
used of s
ml them, but he I
... do «o. Ue tb<
tained by himself w
irr.tp'.iou of Bullock'
lEcpiilillcan l'rogTcss.
i by Mrs. i
.. : ..
- Mrs.
Il.il-pcr ,!■■;,
pi an In tion
. is cultivated by his bro
occupied by Mr.
by all
I'* vis!
the Davi^ out o'
pla.uded by their oppre
1K-CCSS. ' Violcn
inuol, rule louf
sving. The
their bread by the
be crowned with the
bloodshed, and mur-
.re allowed to work,
leled tragedy of the
la which succeeded
lared to the picture
t under the roof of the Presi
leracy, though not by special
him, tint you will see his br
that plantation, that labor will be
lpon a new basis, and that under
apices and moulding hands of this
id sons will be developed a business
sactions will be numbered in hun-
lousands of dollars, would you not
I incredulously ? And I have lived
lay when the plantation has passed
of slavery. Mr. Montgomery, the
: thousand acres of land, has one of
itcresitiug families that I have seen
Ih. They are building up a future
Kteptional now I hope will become
ral hereafter. livery hand of his
iding its quota to the success of this
of a colored man both trading and
an extensive scale. Last year his
n her hands about 130 acres of land,
the distinguished gent lei
-' by
II! the cny
.-'. ■■■. ',.!■
ly appoi
one delegate from each Congi
' i the Sts* ""
of Oolu
e.ii,
mds to one of
of Mont-
nd another daughti
fc Sons has amounted, 1 understand,
year. I stayed on the places sever
When I come, if nothing prevent,
e (if t
mlb. I
rhich brought out
rc[s;e
mong whom was
held 9
on the subjects appropriate to the occasion.
The people, too, have erected a durable monu-
Isir^o and elegant public school-building. His
iioe will be held in honor for his large-hearted-
?ss, his gentle charity, his zeal for the right,
iramending his faith by an exemplary life
ifore all the world.—AT. Y. Independent.
Political Bargain i§ Said
ive Been Made Twenty
Tears Ago.
p.s.| If. '1
tl.. I;-, ui.
lilt- wits
ew York correspondent of the
Independent writes to fin,
There will bo no legislation this s
jieniiimi until 1373, i
In the winter of 1848-9 the Whigs and Democrats were- almost equally divided in the Ohic
Legislature. Neither party had a working
majority in the popular branch, and two Free
soilers, Townsend and Morse, from the Westerr
Reserve, held tho balance of power. The election
in Hamilton county was close, owing to somt
alleged irregularity, Flight Geo. hi.) and Pierce
Democrats, contested the seats of Kunyon anc
Spencer, who'were Whigs, and held s-ertincsitc-
of election. The Whigs stood by the Whigs
■ . -; jnestion involvec
■ : ,,,, ■
o counted a politi
nd, though up
political
.-i;,ri,, and the Freesoiler
vote with the Dem
L^whrciSr^moSa'
i-egislaturc agreed f
of the United States
The i
>ught safety it
and i
1 their wounded f:
;areer of the rebel C
"when the T"
recently married, and
my barouche with
ili'ty of a tender, high ■■
Once, at the Confederate defeat near WineliaV
: ic :..:■.s-i, :
the c -sfii-ii,
them to face
he siesciii
l of tho &
ded from her c.
i rallying a strong force, bu
beyond remedy, and soon th
t whirling down the Valley.
eveland. The
(?) "faith, and Mr. Chase' went 'to the Se:
as the colleague of Mr. Seward
distinguished part in the anti-slavery
where
.tiScation that Mr. Sui
ipeech crystallized the feeling of America,
ipened the eyes of England to the wrong
tad done and her responsibility for that wrn
of it leaked out through quotations, extracts
and attempted refutations of its argument ti
give the English people an idea that Americt
had suffered grievous wrong, and had no idei
of accepting a tissue of compliments for the in
lish Ministry for the first time were confronte!
grounds of international law on which ou
began to obtain, and the wound commenced t
heal. More than to any one man under heavei
the world is indebted for the treaty whieh ha
just been concluded to Charles Sumner. Th
imprudence of statesmanship is the salvation o
nations, and the audacity of genius is the peac
of the world.—Golden Age.
:■-■ 1 = ■ luiled pn
fee Wright.
1 She I
v will n
,11.1 pri
■■ :■''■ ■
i abated
ich Sheffield trades as the saw trade, foi
lis market. It is no use denying, either, that
which such trades here as
ie spring knife m I the tabic knife trade will
ave, their opposition will become more formi-
able. It is true that the
..have
-s levy
l r-ln lib-id goods- e
I that is all,
-etends flint American tabic
" ■ ' liehnients. each will.
en round it, the rep
blade pocket k
ml Si,l
lings per dozen
blade,
Sheffield, and sac
six to ten shilling
are about Ihe same for tho sam
l fining, finish, and style, ver
blades above complaint. The!
few good popular styles, tbey invt
■
the Sheffield spring knife trade
this market is concerned, to pa
cisely the same stages as those
the table-knife trade has pass,
here will pui
.utallmediut
ported goods; then will cot
say to-liav ; perhaps they h
Tlir Cowl of War.
Mr. I'insho'.iii. w;ih theaid of the besti
as been making au estimate of tbe Ct
licit Britain ol the wars i
the accession of William 1
.683. He has first-ascertained the ai
laid for the army and navy during each year of
var, and then deducted from it the ai
sost of the same branches of the servic
icaco establishment. The figures, therefo
l^ln.v
i by a
-ely the
In Ireland and against
Franoe
1702-1713. Spanish . .
1718-1721. With Spain 4>
" th Spain (Right of
Sit -ccasion 43,6.
en Years'War... 82,61
lerican War
1703-1815. With France 831,4- "
I I;--:,I ,: fill,
ada 2,01
1.M-10-1S43. First China War.... 2,8
1848-1853. Kaffir Wrar 2,060,000
1854-1856. Russian War 69,2'
1850-1860. Second China War.. 6,6.
1856-1857. Persian Expedition.. 9'
1864-1865. New Zealand War.. 6,5
180G-T807. Abyssinian Expedition 8,600,000
£1,235,741,2
In all S6,000,000,000, or about one-ha'f
ihe assessed value of all the property in t
United State*; or about two hundred dolli
for every man, woman, and child in ihc Unit
Kingdom; enough of capital, had it been t
plted to the arts of peace, to have prevented
pauperism in (Jrent Britain and Ireland, and
have made them "the happy islands" of tht
times. In other words, whatever the mise:
Tbe following preamble
adopted by the State Convention of Oeoi
held in Atlanta, February 3, 1871;
Whereas the pecu"
l pra.tieal u.i.b
ation, to tbo ei
n of effort, Hen.
Iejeve ;
-w.i-M,s. ■
■oletd. That
i ■ .
President o
and place as he and thoi
iiilv:-.. ids,ill determine be;
ihe member.-ol
of the said Oonvi
. ■ , ■ .
To the Colored Citizens of the Smles of Alabai
.!.■■■: ■-
■■■■:, -Moth Carol!-a a. •"■-
OaroUna, Vexat, Firgt
and the District of Columbia .-
Haying been deputed, in pursu
J,, ... :
f Ihc
and by the
Carolina,
the Coi
that the respective Sta'te.s be repi
the Congress of the United States,
slumbia. '
.1 Districts will elet
d delega
Stat
?hose who may he accredited
ne before it, and should not be disr
eipitantly.
Must respectfully,
II. M. TUKNBR,
President Georgia Stale Cnnven
taowr, Ga., May 29, 1871.
L few of many gentlemen endorsing ti
Uabama—Hou.JameaT. Rapier.
Lrkansas—Hon. J. T. White.
>elawaro—W. Howard Day, Esq.
rlorida— Hon. Jonathan O.Gibbs, ric
State; Hon. Josiah T. Wall, Hon.
leorgia—Hon. J. F. Long, Hoc.
unlcfs the
i delegates,
Dupee, Esq.
■ isiana—Ho
. Governor
■
■-. :; ■
South Carolina—Lieutenant Govi
Smith, Eaq., Alfre
Hon, P. L, Cardoz
Tennessee—Abn
iq., Nelson Wal'ker,*Esq., W. T.
Richard Nelson, Hon.
of Columbia—Hon. Frederick
Kennedy, Esq
Tex
liiibv.
Dist
lass, Hon JL
Statistics of American Journalism.
The American Newspaper Directory foi
Agency of New York c
which
and can f.
Tbey cov
clan has beiore toucn
for reflection and wo
are a few of the ma
these tables reveals:
The whole numbci
the United States is
for the Territories, a:
Dominion of Canadi
colonies, making a
which 637 are daily,
weekly, 4,642 week]'
monthly, 715 month
ti.illyc,
i furnish food
■ printe
I 2!i in the
e aihlfi
grand total
-, 21 bi-weekly, 100
y, 14 bi-monthly, a
j. New York has the
.rgest number of publications—894, of which
ri are printed iu New York city ; and Navada
r popula
fairly be regal
The Ku-Klux: Klan
., twenty-one true bills of indioimei
ind against twenty-one bands of K1
als. Forty-eight have already be*
andcorrfinedinjail. The United Stat
, with a company of United States ca
"the counties of Rutherford, McDowel
'eland. The Ermness of United Stat
lent of tl
commended.
We hear that considerable consteruatioc
been produced among the Klans by the a
of these parties through the aid of tho Ui
States military authorities.
received from a distinguished lawyer in N
jg their disguises, making long
t, and telling all tbey know on otb
,11,1 is
,y State is 83, in
a second, with t
with 38, and Californ
Tri-weekly paper!
orthern States th,
ly papers published
34, being the fourth
Florida have each
lasasmanyasTer-
bined. Nebraska i
Mails.-i
,:.: .. \e
n,'l:,vv-.ire:
Of the 71 public
.
Rhode h.
, West Virgin
■ Mis
NEWS CLIPPINGS.
-Mrs. Sarah S. Aiken makes j£40 a week
isengers from Clinton, Iowa, to Gasden Plain,
-An individual in New York, who bears a
king resemblance to President Grant, is said
enjoy hugely the many mistakes to which
a little North
) ocean fur off
-rubber boat, whieh can
nthe blue
rrel and v
—Ex-Gov. McDougt
Donald's"" govern-
n support of the
d Achille Mural
s befero the Min-
rgenily entreated
■Some ladies at the sea shore b
t Washington
'residents find
and." That,
lal right•
riedlifeof
life witL-
support. He has dipped i
Drodino, the terrible retreat from Moscow,
9 golden weddniB"i \ V
cently, and gave on the occasion a number cf
tcresling reminiscences of his military career.
—The Excelsior Guards (colored) took part
the Fuurth of July celebration in New York.
being tbe first time colored troops thus ap-
■ai-i.-tl. the novelty o! the upcotacle drew airrei t
owd. Gen. Wm. M. Tweed, Jr., son of
Tammany politi
State militia. Verily, the
ster of the Treasury has i
ofenetom
within twenty Af.j= after tht
quarter. The time i',- trs.-i,:;sin.isg the returns
e fact that an entire r
—A Western preach
rough the Red Sea by
marking that there it
happened thousands of
ice under the equ
ted preacher, ''th
the gentleman completely."
—A faithful old dog, wh
Louisville fire company for
and a piece of poisoned li
-The
voniiin 1
-eight, t
eral had b
lapjlis (Md.) Republican
ac^ciiH-ei- at this point W8
i-.ilil.iy^s,,.
n advance, and taken
;eof by the regular officers
,ay rejoicing.
s ■
e ground that there are just a
i.k«
ing the firs
country, it
prospected
wloverdnr-
oldand
.nyoftheseo
iercd "j;ood
;giugs," and are being carefully worked o
—The shoemakers employed by the promii
inufacturing establishments of Bahin
in their letter of their difficult.- v
pins. About a dozen men came fro
informed of the facta of the case qi
the Territories 13 are daily and 50 are weekly,
1 semi monthly, and 1 bi-weekly.
The number of
than the English li
dinavia, and Italy.
The publications printed in the G<
mmhlyi
i published in other
guage in the United States
and i
of which the above
The platfor
■-■'■';'- ■
legation to the Democn
lowledge, that a
i Plain Dealer haa
c National Conven-
. !;, -.
-i tli it "
, tl ': .:■
. The t
will I.
tioo, received all but four or five votes, Mr.
Vallaudigbaui being absent at the time the vote
—The halfpenny postage system, introduced
into Great Britain nearly nine months ago, has
fully corresponded with the anticipations of the
e'uue, although a loss of $250,000 wascaused
by tho aboliton of tbe newspaper stamp. Tho
first six months' operation of the halfpenny
newspaper and postal-card system give the following as the issue of labels, cards, and wrappers, to wit; 77,215,680 halfpenny labels, yielding a revenue of $804,330, aud 33.048,420 wrappers, yielding 8344,250. Tbe halfpenny postal
cards numbered 58,485,960, and yielded $6-
092.29.
i says the
—The La
executoiso!
deu.n Stcvci
grave the pr
"When Mr.
the" fact that t
be bnried in t
■ ,1'enn i
Ion. Thad-

THE NEW NATIONAL EKA,
JRSDAY MORNING
COMMUNIOA TIONS.
Letter from Vermont.
Watbrbb-bt] Vt., July 15, 1870.
To the Editor of ihe New National Era :
"Washington, the place of boiling sun, burn
ing blasts, mad dogs, and madder people sonic
times, possesses little to attract just now
Everybody that can are leaving—some by wa
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad ; some b;
the Potomac ; and, alas 1 how many by way c
To c
i by -
latter route, we chose that greatest of all mo-
of $7.50, landed as in modern Gotham on the
tempted i
All we wanted
breath i
,vr»..-w
" Breakfast on board <
utrengtl. si
iplc,
vi,:. u
It hole under the cabin smalt of toffee
and onions ; we entered. A few cat-holes
near the ceiling gave ventilation from under
the wharf. Our waiter took orders and left.
Our appetites left without orders. The former
finally retired, the latter joined us hours after
somewhere between New York and Albany.
Long we waited, gasping fur breath, in a reeking perspiration ; but then we were " making
it what we pleased," Ac; we imitated dob
with all our might, aud soon as possible struck
for daylight and the fresh air of New York
city on dock. Bat such retrenchments !
For economy, give us an uptown hotel, where
prices and temporal punishment are materially
less. This will he our choice the next time
kindly allowed to "make it what we
pKsi
ie Hudson! Would you like
it? Well, like the old lady'
du. Have not Bayard Taylot
rving, Beeoher, and hundreds of
ged writers vainly attempted to
this unique workmanship of the
1 "Shall fools rush on whore
will do, and the mind is v<
The quiet, clean, cool stvci
present such a contrast to 0
ington at this season. Thi
"hot." We laughed at the
r beloved Wash-
people called it
:, and told them
*( The Smtih
In the month of February, after a full and
free conference of the leading colored citizens
of Richmond with the colored members of the
Legislature, seeking the most speedy and effec-
y ofo
.-■it ,ri
public opinion, it was decided to call a conven
tion of tho colored people of the State, to b
held in Richmond, Virginia, on or about Apri
12, in order that they might take into conside
ration the removal of certain binderances lo th
success of Republican principles in that State
But for some unexplained reason the member
of the Legislature thought better (>
and 1
Barely
,;.,-, if,,
four months have elapsoc
dition of affairs urge the n
tion of the colored people of the slave-holdir
States. A call has been issued and signed 1
representative men from all sections of tl
e Virginia
No i,
1 I.,,-,:
Virginia, with her hundred thorn;
places her colored citizens in an attitude ei
of indifference or opposition. Have the wr
ling feuds and blunders of the past so dem
ized the manses, and the truckling, blind at
of some of their leaders left none whose m
would have been a tower of strength?
the past indifference of Virginians in the
liocal gatherings shown a disheartening
of appreciation? Was it fc,
Cms
re- lei
e popular will ?
Men of Virginia, you owa
that your representatives shot
against this important mo>
members of the Legislature
now? Under which king, B
Colored
A correspondent of the New V,,l. 7V,i
writing from Pensaeola, Phi., says :
The New York Observer
NEW NATIONAL ERA.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
TfiAHBIEKT AD?BRTISIHG BATES
VOL. II.—NO.
WASHINGTON", D. 0., THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1871.
vardico of Tammany aud the hesita-
incompetency of the officials with
ifflicts us, has brought terrible bu(
nits of shame and sorrow to the city.
: than weak, the pusillanimous sur-
demand of outraged public
niul though not so morn
Cietieil by lili
cakncisi and I ■
ng demonstrate
■aecii cry ...if Hi-.-
i the indignant
irly ye;:!,
,ii.ei-edoi
reside in greatest
''"^vi'th'whi
i the localities where
■pemtc resolution of those about them. The
enerally were gruff and silent:, evidently
,■!■:,.. .S! ■ :„:i ; ■•: C.iil
of the men whi
Governor. Sep.
ei^M in number
i they had made Mayor ami
,-siiiliiiiini:
Miahaetir,
t fire to her
ity scholars and drovo her'
tiie piste.:. Mis heart never quailed Iii
instant, it is memorable, as an evidem
tho influence which a good man may have
■ immunity, that, thirty years afterward, fl
am county voted by a targe m
f negro suffrage, and stood for
■ ■■ .
In 1 b3."i, the year when the raob spirit against
if the slave led him to relinquish liis
home and the service nf c
..o take upon himself tho laborious and
and nelf-denying labors of a traveling lecturer
that and the foil
:i:l], ■]■ pill
ivorLiuen ml thi
them. In one
gainst (he houses of
!;t:::: vein
tented the Ora
ip, they gradually diaper
■ by t
hud boasted, Still
threatening bef,
lompelled
few determined policen
ry purpose, but it was pi
[Tout the organization tl
before 10 o'clock 1
a HaH,0and
. ■.':.,;
had been comparatively qui
holly destroyed the
' police. There
perfect console ol action !sctv,-ecn tins riiiperiiitendi-nt of
:
us-, fact- will eventually be traced many of
blunders which have aided to make the
)e aud troops were eager to do their full
• ; there was no sympathy in the ranks
■
expect
y handled
hsive-l fith such (firing Knt, i
; blunder*,
■ - «s."e spirit whit
from their lodge in Eighth avenue an
points of the city began to concentra
marched in large bodies through the
streets, undispersod. A large polios
previously been sent there, und thesi
rioters at a distance. Later ic tht
regiments of troops marched to the si
and by two o'clock tbe entire brig-i
large body of police had formed i
avenue, hemmed in at all the cross :
an angry mob.
Soon after the Orangem
■ ■ : ■
, preparatory t
ce put them to flight. Subsequently
way, the police acting with great spirits. Tint
which they hud been driven, and prepared to
renew their hooting, or to indulge in more
violent demonstrations. A few shots were fired
from houses in the avenue, before the proces-
iog the fire by a single shot, but nothing really
serious occurred until the bead of the line hud
reached Twenty-third street, and the Orange-
previously loaded v
the effect of their fi
same time the9thar
of the Orangemen a
nately, sweeping I
none of them apparently took effect
sniueilintely und escilcily discha
at. They
■ii-bih s
,i '.oh ii
eclilii:.
, llie pliltut
"'"!■,
siliit;; up
stationed at Twenty-ninth sti
*" 9th, and 84th regim
pletely demoralized
holly without order. 'I
"Mrs. Ileiii; !--,
louthern people : 'Idecla
the follow
has been pusstnj
ing and hearing
before God, 1
sending politicians down he
a Ku-Klux,
■i,,.---
I . .
i yesterday.
is simply a
tmgh he may have
justly maligned thai
They found black ci
road, stopping
tenerally
ren.or their eick.
■u broke up prcttj
freedinen theii
many try to make out. And by so represt
■
and 22 year* of that time in Florida; h
never held office, and seldom voted at
election. - -
from thei
however, und reforming
leaving a hundred or mo
side streets from Twenty
idoned also the ecu
and thei:
icdy to apply, forte
called wholly guitleis) s-uffered
dead and wounded
behind them. The
inty-eigbth
their (ri:
id of all but those
in pane th
obstruct the march
ppressed by this single volley, and
Samuel J. Way, Deceased
extended rjot
- ■■'■■■:
iderneas
dand by what is right. Born'in
181-7, he was
te. Ami'd all
i improve the condition of society ai
" in, and by his modest, c;
n the subject of slavery it
en in 1833 the i
is Crandall and .
[ school, :
, hi* Villi'
eofh:
.
■
i'for 1,
.re,|UCL,tofltoi;i
if the first Norre
Kington, afterwa
was afterward settled
guve up this parish, attl
nn, i.o isike hi, the charge of the Si
no] established tit I.ex ing tun,
lovedto Frnminghara. Whileintbe .
uee.upu.iiey ofthepiiliiitiit Lexington, he labored
showed the breadth of bis charity and the
fearlessness of his advocacy of the rights of
freedom in opinion and in speech by a voluntary
exchange of pulpits with Theodore Parker, then
so obnoxious among the Unitarians that only
Hi him.
In ;S-l:i Mr. May accepted a call to Syracuse,
let-c for nbnv
■ffiee of a Chri
:, and such singlem
iticli e
and consistency of life as to win the respect of
they might differ from him theologically. W hile
laboring diligently to build up his own people,
in peace, order, and piety, be was a ready aod
place—of edocatiou, temperance, and publt
,i.it-:.i ;
specially against ibe c. -* ;'ir;t of caste
availing
'. from Georgia.
appear and testify B
to tbeeomi:!
etisuy silied I.,,dure the i
ot ooimluded00" "1J
" :.i :
nrii i.vii ui the Ku-Klux ori
aation of the Ku-Klux,
composed entirely of I
tims of their outrages
Republicans. There is
nid, Ku-KJte in nearly
iinii l
"pP'ss-il.
"ll'islit
negroes and *dis-
■: elcti.-giu nr.s in
■■iius', but would
te suffrage.
sat in Geor-
o granted univer-
iere is no hope of good
I suffrage. The white peoph
• i.'en.
■ Un
do this by tlic aid of Nnrthci
y foreign countr, he thinks tl
arted with a-view
si.iy that in.-!
join greatly ■>. j
e is among the leadiuj:
th little loyalty or.h
t of Southern whites i
The Ku-Kltix Kin
■ .
ranting gener
xhibit a. kind
Witness m
eKu-hiiixK
keep tho n
■i,.nn
men thought there
the purposes of t
of the best, mos:
men in Georgia, and exists in almost evei
State lie thought it bent t
used of s
ml them, but he I
... do «o. Ue tb<
tained by himself w
irr.tp'.iou of Bullock'
lEcpiilillcan l'rogTcss.
i by Mrs. i
.. : ..
- Mrs.
Il.il-pcr ,!■■;,
pi an In tion
. is cultivated by his bro
occupied by Mr.
by all
I'* vis!
the Davi^ out o'
pla.uded by their oppre
1K-CCSS. ' Violcn
inuol, rule louf
sving. The
their bread by the
be crowned with the
bloodshed, and mur-
.re allowed to work,
leled tragedy of the
la which succeeded
lared to the picture
t under the roof of the Presi
leracy, though not by special
him, tint you will see his br
that plantation, that labor will be
lpon a new basis, and that under
apices and moulding hands of this
id sons will be developed a business
sactions will be numbered in hun-
lousands of dollars, would you not
I incredulously ? And I have lived
lay when the plantation has passed
of slavery. Mr. Montgomery, the
: thousand acres of land, has one of
itcresitiug families that I have seen
Ih. They are building up a future
Kteptional now I hope will become
ral hereafter. livery hand of his
iding its quota to the success of this
of a colored man both trading and
an extensive scale. Last year his
n her hands about 130 acres of land,
the distinguished gent lei
-' by
II! the cny
.-'. ■■■. ',.!■
ly appoi
one delegate from each Congi
' i the Sts* ""
of Oolu
e.ii,
mds to one of
of Mont-
nd another daughti
fc Sons has amounted, 1 understand,
year. I stayed on the places sever
When I come, if nothing prevent,
e (if t
mlb. I
rhich brought out
rc[s;e
mong whom was
held 9
on the subjects appropriate to the occasion.
The people, too, have erected a durable monu-
Isir^o and elegant public school-building. His
iioe will be held in honor for his large-hearted-
?ss, his gentle charity, his zeal for the right,
iramending his faith by an exemplary life
ifore all the world.—AT. Y. Independent.
Political Bargain i§ Said
ive Been Made Twenty
Tears Ago.
p.s.| If. '1
tl.. I;-, ui.
lilt- wits
ew York correspondent of the
Independent writes to fin,
There will bo no legislation this s
jieniiimi until 1373, i
In the winter of 1848-9 the Whigs and Democrats were- almost equally divided in the Ohic
Legislature. Neither party had a working
majority in the popular branch, and two Free
soilers, Townsend and Morse, from the Westerr
Reserve, held tho balance of power. The election
in Hamilton county was close, owing to somt
alleged irregularity, Flight Geo. hi.) and Pierce
Democrats, contested the seats of Kunyon anc
Spencer, who'were Whigs, and held s-ertincsitc-
of election. The Whigs stood by the Whigs
■ . -; jnestion involvec
■ : ,,,, ■
o counted a politi
nd, though up
political
.-i;,ri,, and the Freesoiler
vote with the Dem
L^whrciSr^moSa'
i-egislaturc agreed f
of the United States
The i
>ught safety it
and i
1 their wounded f:
;areer of the rebel C
"when the T"
recently married, and
my barouche with
ili'ty of a tender, high ■■
Once, at the Confederate defeat near WineliaV
: ic :..:■.s-i, :
the c -sfii-ii,
them to face
he siesciii
l of tho &
ded from her c.
i rallying a strong force, bu
beyond remedy, and soon th
t whirling down the Valley.
eveland. The
(?) "faith, and Mr. Chase' went 'to the Se:
as the colleague of Mr. Seward
distinguished part in the anti-slavery
where
.tiScation that Mr. Sui
ipeech crystallized the feeling of America,
ipened the eyes of England to the wrong
tad done and her responsibility for that wrn
of it leaked out through quotations, extracts
and attempted refutations of its argument ti
give the English people an idea that Americt
had suffered grievous wrong, and had no idei
of accepting a tissue of compliments for the in
lish Ministry for the first time were confronte!
grounds of international law on which ou
began to obtain, and the wound commenced t
heal. More than to any one man under heavei
the world is indebted for the treaty whieh ha
just been concluded to Charles Sumner. Th
imprudence of statesmanship is the salvation o
nations, and the audacity of genius is the peac
of the world.—Golden Age.
:■-■ 1 = ■ luiled pn
fee Wright.
1 She I
v will n
,11.1 pri
■■ :■''■ ■
i abated
ich Sheffield trades as the saw trade, foi
lis market. It is no use denying, either, that
which such trades here as
ie spring knife m I the tabic knife trade will
ave, their opposition will become more formi-
able. It is true that the
..have
-s levy
l r-ln lib-id goods- e
I that is all,
-etends flint American tabic
" ■ ' liehnients. each will.
en round it, the rep
blade pocket k
ml Si,l
lings per dozen
blade,
Sheffield, and sac
six to ten shilling
are about Ihe same for tho sam
l fining, finish, and style, ver
blades above complaint. The!
few good popular styles, tbey invt
■
the Sheffield spring knife trade
this market is concerned, to pa
cisely the same stages as those
the table-knife trade has pass,
here will pui
.utallmediut
ported goods; then will cot
say to-liav ; perhaps they h
Tlir Cowl of War.
Mr. I'insho'.iii. w;ih theaid of the besti
as been making au estimate of tbe Ct
licit Britain ol the wars i
the accession of William 1
.683. He has first-ascertained the ai
laid for the army and navy during each year of
var, and then deducted from it the ai
sost of the same branches of the servic
icaco establishment. The figures, therefo
l^ln.v
i by a
-ely the
In Ireland and against
Franoe
1702-1713. Spanish . .
1718-1721. With Spain 4>
" th Spain (Right of
Sit -ccasion 43,6.
en Years'War... 82,61
lerican War
1703-1815. With France 831,4- "
I I;--:,I ,: fill,
ada 2,01
1.M-10-1S43. First China War.... 2,8
1848-1853. Kaffir Wrar 2,060,000
1854-1856. Russian War 69,2'
1850-1860. Second China War.. 6,6.
1856-1857. Persian Expedition.. 9'
1864-1865. New Zealand War.. 6,5
180G-T807. Abyssinian Expedition 8,600,000
£1,235,741,2
In all S6,000,000,000, or about one-ha'f
ihe assessed value of all the property in t
United State*; or about two hundred dolli
for every man, woman, and child in ihc Unit
Kingdom; enough of capital, had it been t
plted to the arts of peace, to have prevented
pauperism in (Jrent Britain and Ireland, and
have made them "the happy islands" of tht
times. In other words, whatever the mise:
Tbe following preamble
adopted by the State Convention of Oeoi
held in Atlanta, February 3, 1871;
Whereas the pecu"
l pra.tieal u.i.b
ation, to tbo ei
n of effort, Hen.
Iejeve ;
-w.i-M,s. ■
■oletd. That
i ■ .
President o
and place as he and thoi
iiilv:-.. ids,ill determine be;
ihe member.-ol
of the said Oonvi
. ■ , ■ .
To the Colored Citizens of the Smles of Alabai
.!.■■■: ■-
■■■■:, -Moth Carol!-a a. •"■-
OaroUna, Vexat, Firgt
and the District of Columbia .-
Haying been deputed, in pursu
J,, ... :
f Ihc
and by the
Carolina,
the Coi
that the respective Sta'te.s be repi
the Congress of the United States,
slumbia. '
.1 Districts will elet
d delega
Stat
?hose who may he accredited
ne before it, and should not be disr
eipitantly.
Must respectfully,
II. M. TUKNBR,
President Georgia Stale Cnnven
taowr, Ga., May 29, 1871.
L few of many gentlemen endorsing ti
Uabama—Hou.JameaT. Rapier.
Lrkansas—Hon. J. T. White.
>elawaro—W. Howard Day, Esq.
rlorida— Hon. Jonathan O.Gibbs, ric
State; Hon. Josiah T. Wall, Hon.
leorgia—Hon. J. F. Long, Hoc.
unlcfs the
i delegates,
Dupee, Esq.
■ isiana—Ho
. Governor
■
■-. :; ■
South Carolina—Lieutenant Govi
Smith, Eaq., Alfre
Hon, P. L, Cardoz
Tennessee—Abn
iq., Nelson Wal'ker,*Esq., W. T.
Richard Nelson, Hon.
of Columbia—Hon. Frederick
Kennedy, Esq
Tex
liiibv.
Dist
lass, Hon JL
Statistics of American Journalism.
The American Newspaper Directory foi
Agency of New York c
which
and can f.
Tbey cov
clan has beiore toucn
for reflection and wo
are a few of the ma
these tables reveals:
The whole numbci
the United States is
for the Territories, a:
Dominion of Canadi
colonies, making a
which 637 are daily,
weekly, 4,642 week]'
monthly, 715 month
ti.illyc,
i furnish food
■ printe
I 2!i in the
e aihlfi
grand total
-, 21 bi-weekly, 100
y, 14 bi-monthly, a
j. New York has the
.rgest number of publications—894, of which
ri are printed iu New York city ; and Navada
r popula
fairly be regal
The Ku-Klux: Klan
., twenty-one true bills of indioimei
ind against twenty-one bands of K1
als. Forty-eight have already be*
andcorrfinedinjail. The United Stat
, with a company of United States ca
"the counties of Rutherford, McDowel
'eland. The Ermness of United Stat
lent of tl
commended.
We hear that considerable consteruatioc
been produced among the Klans by the a
of these parties through the aid of tho Ui
States military authorities.
received from a distinguished lawyer in N
jg their disguises, making long
t, and telling all tbey know on otb
,11,1 is
,y State is 83, in
a second, with t
with 38, and Californ
Tri-weekly paper!
orthern States th,
ly papers published
34, being the fourth
Florida have each
lasasmanyasTer-
bined. Nebraska i
Mails.-i
,:.: .. \e
n,'l:,vv-.ire:
Of the 71 public
.
Rhode h.
, West Virgin
■ Mis
NEWS CLIPPINGS.
-Mrs. Sarah S. Aiken makes j£40 a week
isengers from Clinton, Iowa, to Gasden Plain,
-An individual in New York, who bears a
king resemblance to President Grant, is said
enjoy hugely the many mistakes to which
a little North
) ocean fur off
-rubber boat, whieh can
nthe blue
rrel and v
—Ex-Gov. McDougt
Donald's"" govern-
n support of the
d Achille Mural
s befero the Min-
rgenily entreated
■Some ladies at the sea shore b
t Washington
'residents find
and." That,
lal right•
riedlifeof
life witL-
support. He has dipped i
Drodino, the terrible retreat from Moscow,
9 golden weddniB"i \ V
cently, and gave on the occasion a number cf
tcresling reminiscences of his military career.
—The Excelsior Guards (colored) took part
the Fuurth of July celebration in New York.
being tbe first time colored troops thus ap-
■ai-i.-tl. the novelty o! the upcotacle drew airrei t
owd. Gen. Wm. M. Tweed, Jr., son of
Tammany politi
State militia. Verily, the
ster of the Treasury has i
ofenetom
within twenty Af.j= after tht
quarter. The time i',- trs.-i,:;sin.isg the returns
e fact that an entire r
—A Western preach
rough the Red Sea by
marking that there it
happened thousands of
ice under the equ
ted preacher, ''th
the gentleman completely."
—A faithful old dog, wh
Louisville fire company for
and a piece of poisoned li
-The
voniiin 1
-eight, t
eral had b
lapjlis (Md.) Republican
ac^ciiH-ei- at this point W8
i-.ilil.iy^s,,.
n advance, and taken
;eof by the regular officers
,ay rejoicing.
s ■
e ground that there are just a
i.k«
ing the firs
country, it
prospected
wloverdnr-
oldand
.nyoftheseo
iercd "j;ood
;giugs," and are being carefully worked o
—The shoemakers employed by the promii
inufacturing establishments of Bahin
in their letter of their difficult.- v
pins. About a dozen men came fro
informed of the facta of the case qi
the Territories 13 are daily and 50 are weekly,
1 semi monthly, and 1 bi-weekly.
The number of
than the English li
dinavia, and Italy.
The publications printed in the G<
mmhlyi
i published in other
guage in the United States
and i
of which the above
The platfor
■-■'■';'- ■
legation to the Democn
lowledge, that a
i Plain Dealer haa
c National Conven-
. !;, -.
-i tli it "
, tl ': .:■
. The t
will I.
tioo, received all but four or five votes, Mr.
Vallaudigbaui being absent at the time the vote
—The halfpenny postage system, introduced
into Great Britain nearly nine months ago, has
fully corresponded with the anticipations of the
e'uue, although a loss of $250,000 wascaused
by tho aboliton of tbe newspaper stamp. Tho
first six months' operation of the halfpenny
newspaper and postal-card system give the following as the issue of labels, cards, and wrappers, to wit; 77,215,680 halfpenny labels, yielding a revenue of $804,330, aud 33.048,420 wrappers, yielding 8344,250. Tbe halfpenny postal
cards numbered 58,485,960, and yielded $6-
092.29.
i says the
—The La
executoiso!
deu.n Stcvci
grave the pr
"When Mr.
the" fact that t
be bnried in t
■ ,1'enn i
Ion. Thad-